John A. Wright, Ph.D.
 

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e-mail: jaws@mems.caltech.edu

 


Upon concluding my research with Dr. Yu-Chong Tai and a successful thesis defense, I received my Ph.D. from Caltech for advanced studies in Electrical Engineering specializing in investigations of through-wafer 3-D microcmachining techniques in June of 1999. As the publications list below indicates, the technologies that I pursued were applied to a number of different devices with applications ranging from biotechnology to space craft instrumentation.

Education

Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering, Caltech - 1993-1999
M.S.E.E. - Caltech - 1992-1993
B.S.E.E. - Thayer School of Engineering - 1991-1992
B.A. - Computer and Electrical Engineering, Dartmouth College - 1987-1991
Spanish Studies - La Universidad De Granada, Granada, Spain 1989

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award, 46th International Relay Conference, 1998
College of Relay Engineers Fellow, 1998
Caltech Institute Fellowship, 1992-1993
Cum Laude Graduate, Dartmouth College, 1991
Dean of Faculty Academic Excellence Award, Dartmouth College, 1991
Bartlett Scholarship, 1987-1991

Publications

Switch on Motor Housing John A. Wright, Yu-Chong Tai and Gerald Lilienthal, A Magnetostatic MEMS Switch for DC Brushless Motor Commutation, Proceedings: Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, pp. 304-307, June 1998.
Photo of Die on Dime John A. Wright and Yu-Chong Tai, Micro-Miniature Electromagnetic Switches Fabricated Using MEMS Technology, Proceedings: 46th Annual International Relay Conference: NARM '98, Oak Brook, Illinois, pp. 13-1 to 13-4, April 1998.
Photo of Beam John A. Wright, Yu-Chong Tai, and Shih-Chia Chang, A Large-Force, Fully-Integrated MEMS Magnetic Actuator, Technical Digest: 1997 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators: Transducers '97, Vol. 2, Chicago, IL, pp. 793-796, June 1997.
SEM of Neuron in Well John A. Wright, Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Yu-Chong Tai, Michael P. Maher, Hannah Dvorak and Jerome Pine,Towards a Functional MEMS Neurowell by Physiological Experimentation, Technical Digest: ASME 1996 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, DSC-Vol. 59, Atlanta, GA, pp. 333-338, Nov. 1996.
Neural In Vivo Outgrowth Jerome Pine, Michael Maher, Steven Potter, Yu-Chong Tai, Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, and John Wright, "A Cultured Neuron Probe," Proceedings of IEEE-EMBS Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, paper #421, Nov. 1996.
Neurochip with Neural Network Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, John A. Wright, Yu-Chong Tai and Jerome Pine, Silicon Cultured-Neuron Prosthetic Devices for In Vivo and In Vitro Studies, Eurosensors X, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 159-162, Sept. 1996.
SEM of Waveguide John A. Wright, Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Yu-Chong Tai, William R. McGrath, B. Bumble, and H. LeDuc, Integrated Silicon Micromachined Waveguide Circuits For Submillimeter Wave Applications, Symposium Proceedings: Sixth International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Pasadena, CA, pp. 387-396, March 1995.
SEMs of Neuroprobe Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Yu-Chong Tai, John A. Wright and Jerome Pine, Silicon-Micromachined Cultured Neuron Probes for In Vivo Studies for Neural Networks, Technical Digest: ASME Dynamic Systems and Control, DSC-Vol. 55-2, Chicago, IL, pp. 761-766, Nov. 1994.
SEMs of Neurochip Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Yu-Chong Tai, John A. Wright, Jerome Pine and Timothy Denison, Silicon-Micromachined Neurochips for In Vitro Studies of Cultured Neural Networks, Technical Digest: International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators: Transducers '93, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 943-946, Nov. 1993.